Category: Data Management

August 13, 2019

One of the advantages of the cloud is scale. We don’t call the big three cloud platforms hyperscale for nothing; they have massive data centers all around the world with millions of servers that can be treated as pools of […]

June 17, 2019

In all the excitement about NoSQL databases, distributed databases, data warehouses, and GPU-accelerated databases these days, it’s easy to forget that traditional relational databases still store and serve the mission-critical information for many, if not most, line-of-business applications. Oracle Database, […]

May 10, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is hardly a new idea. In fact, the first reference to what we now understand as AI dates back to 1863, when Samuel Butler wrote Darwin among the Machines. Butler’s article predicted the rise of “mechanical consciousness” […]

May 1, 2019

Google is introducing a new feature for your Google account that will allow you to automatically delete your Location History and Web and App Activity data after a set period of time. You’ll be able to delete the data after […]

April 18, 2019

The industry’s use of analytics is ubiquitous and highly varied. From correlating all components in a technology ecosystem to learning from and adapting to new events as well as automating and optimising processes – in many different ways, these use […]

January 15, 2019

If Microsoft is to succeed in making Azure its future, it needs to bring developers to its cloud platform. That would be easy if we were back in the early days of the PC, when it was still possible to […]

December 19, 2018

According to a new press release, “SAP SE today announced updates to the enterprise information management (EIM) portfolio that help reduce data landscape complexities by expanding data connectivity and source support as well as providing an integrated and simplified data […]

November 22, 2018

Disaster tends to strike when you least expect it and a data breach, ransomware attack or even a phishing scam all have the potential to completely derail your business. This is why security experts recommend that every company has a […]

July 24, 2018

If you buy one of the new 2018 MacBook Pros, you’d best back up your data, since recovery will be much harder than it was before if your logic board fails. It turns out Apple removed a data-recovery port from […]

July 17, 2018

The big data landscape has exploded in an incredibly short amount of time. It was just in 2013 that the term “big data” was added to the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. Fewer than five years later, 2.5 quintillion […]